Gotta love this sign, seen in the lead-up to the start of the Beijing Olympics. The only thing missing is a “Hello Kitty!” reference!
While maintaining the internet as a safe place for all people, particularly children, is very important, current trials in Australia to implement internet filtering at the ISP level concerns me somewhat.
Having worked in Information Technology for nearly 15 years, and most recently having worked at an ISP, I would be highly concerned about the level of reporting that ISPs may be required to produce.
Also, will such filtering be placed against me, completely against my will? There’s no reporting either way – I certainly hope this is not a step in the direction of government legislated censorship of the internet.
There is nothing better in football for an Essendon fan to beat Carlton or Collingwood. In recent weeks, Essendon has done both of those things.
Essendon struggled in the early part of the season. A new coach and new game plan still settling in with the players. Now, with some consistency in team selection, and some belief that the new game plan can actually work, they players are returning the faith of the fans in bucket loads.
The impending National Broadband Network (NBN) is beginning to take shape, at least in the tender period. Australia has been far behind other countries in internet connectivity, and planning for the NBN, as postulated by the then-incoming Rudd federal government in November 2007 is moving a quite rapidly.
Many Australians still suffer with dialup as the best possible internet access medium, yet others can experience 20MB ADSL2+ services at the flick of a switch.
There’s a long way to go, but the planned Fibre-to-the-Node (FTTN) network will be a major boost to the local economy. As long as they get the backhaul sorted out, I’m looking forward to it.
Over the recent US Memorial Day weekend, popular internet media site Revision3 was brought down by an apparent DDOS attack, launched by MediaDefender.
As you can read in the article posted by Revision3 CEO, Jim Louderback, MediaDefender were apparently deliberately attacking and abusing Revision3’s BitTorrent distribution servers. When the techs at Rev3 shut them out of this abuse mechanism, their server “automatically” launched the DDOS attack, claiming that Rev3 was hosting illegal material.
Revision3 use BitTorrent to efficient deliver it’s very popular content right around the world, for as little cost as possible – the whole idea of BitTorrent.
For an individual company to so heavily attack a company using it for legitimate reasons is so utterly wrong.
I hope, as Jim suggests, that the FBI goes right through them. If someone attacked my business electronically, I’d be pretty pissed too. It wouldn’t surprise if the true dark hackers on the internet have a go back at MediaDefender, in the not too distant future!
Welcome back to the new-look michaelwyres.com. As much as I wanted to keep running with the content management system (CMS) that I designed and wrote myself, my ever increasing time pressures have hampered my maintenance of the code, and have lead me to move to a commonly available package.
Not all of the old content is back up yet, but I’ll be gradually adding it all back in over the next couple of days.
V8 Supercar fans will remember Matt Neal – the man who severely damaged a Paul Morris Motorsport Commodore during it’s shakedown appearance in 2001, and even more memorably, overtook some front running cars at Bathurst in 2000, while being lapped.
Here’s a look back at that incident, which is again causing shudders amongst the fans, with the recent announcement that “Super Matt” will be back in Australia this September and October for the endurance races.
Let’s hope he’s learnt a bit since then!
After years of reliance on the Southern Cross Cable, and Telstra, Australia is about to receive a third major backhaul data connection to the rest of the world, with the official announcement of PPC-1.
Though PPC-1 has been common knowledge in the communications world for some time, the official launch provides a tangible time frame for the completion and provisioning of the service.
Pipe Networks is responsible for the new undersea cable to Guam, a US territory with direct links to both the US west coast, and Asia. They have already signalled the start of a pricing war, with new customers Primus, Internode, iiNet, Telikom PNG and VSNL, commenting that the pricing is around “50% of the existing carriers”.
Here’s a fun video of James Hird undergoing a fitness test at Windy Hill during his final season. Since the demolition of the southern part of the ground, it’s pretty easy to get to the oval from the road outside.
And as these gentlemen with the video camera soon discover, a “closed training session”, really is CLOSED to the public. However, despite being asked to leave, they stuck around.
Enter James Hird – and his demonstration of accurate kicking.
Noice!
Possibly my favourite TV show of all time was Knight Rider. Aside from the fact that it starred David Hasselhoff – please don’t hold that against it – it was a pretty cool show for it’s time.
One of the regular stunts was having KITT drive on and off FLAG’s roving workshop, in the back of a truck. Some people thought this was rigged, but here the guys from Mythbusters try and prove once and for all if it was possible.
